The man accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl and throwing her from a bridge into a Massachusetts lake now faces an upgraded murder charge and will be held on $1 million bail, CBS reported.
Prosecutors said that Joshua Hubert, 35, was at a cookout at the home of the girl’s grandparents on Sunday night, Mass Live reported. The girl was asleep when Hubert allegedly took her and left the home in his car.
He then drove around for about an hour, choked the girl, and stopped on the Interstate 290 overpass over Lake Quinsigamond, prosecutors said. Hubert then allegedly took the girl, who was wrapped in a blanket, and threw her into the lake.
At a hearing in Worcester District Court on Thursday, Hubert’s lawyer, Richard M. Welsh Jr. maintained his client’s innocence.
